(New York – May 5, 2005) Col. David H. Hackworth, the United States Army’s legendary, highly decorated guerrilla fighter and lifelong champion of the doughboy and dogface, groundpounder and grunt, died on May 4 in Mexico. The cause of death was a form of cancer. He was 74 years old.
Col. Hackworth spent more than half a century on the country’s hottest battlefields, first as a soldier, then as a writer and war correspondent. His military career... Read More